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Meta has silently updated itssupport pagesto indicate that the company wo n’t permit users on Instagram content their Facebook contacts anymore .
The company , as pointed out by9to5Google , allege the feature film will shut down mid - December — without specifying a particular date .
The financial support page indicates that while you wo n’t be capable to start young cross - platform conversation , your existing chats on Instagram will become read - only .
The social media heavyweight first introducedcross - platform messaging in 2020 . And three years later , after addingfeatures like group chatalong the room , the company is shutting down the feature without much tucket .
Meta did n’t provide a specific reason for discontinue the transversal - platform message feature . The European Union’sDigital Markets Act ( DMA)requires large messaging apps to be interoperable with each other .
In September , WABetaInforeported that Meta - own WhatsApphas started working on an interoperability feature of speech as the blog spot a “ third - party chats ” filmdom .
In August , the societal media behemoth say that it aims to turn onend - to - ending encoding for Messenger users by default by the ending of the year . At that time , Meta ’s deputy privateness officeholder Rob Sherman said Instagram DMs would also get end - to - oddment encryption protection once the Messenger rollout is complete . The society did n’t immediately comment if the discontinuance of bad-tempered - platform messaging was related to this development .
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Separately , Meta also agreed tooverhaul its account centerto allow users a greater point of control over grumpy - site action , upon the direction of the German antitrust body in June .
